Dear Juno,
First of all, you are not alone, countless teenagers get put in the position that you are in. I am a high school senior who hasn't gotten myself in trouble like you because of my higher level of maturity and common sense. Lets face it, your pregnant but want to birth the child instead of having an abortion. Giving it up for adoption is a smart choice compared to abortion. Feminists will be fine with this decision, so your making more than yourself happy.
Hopefully you have learned a valuable lesson, one concerning preparation and logic. This experimentation and curiosity with little knowledge led to the pregnancy. Simple preparation could have prevented this, birth control and condoms for example; the use of these would have stop the pregnancy for sure, but since your a ill prepared teenager, this wasn't floating around in your mind, sex was. Hormones were the ones making decisions, not you. Sadly you can't go back in time and change this but it is what it is. This is one of the problems in the school system, if you were educated on this topic, there would have been a way less of chance this interaction would have taken place. The frontal lobe isn't developed yet, so you will make bad decisions in your teenage years. A combination of preparation, knowledge, and logic could have avoided this pregnancy completely.
Lets think about the birth of your child, you will be undergoing a lot of pain and suffering, and awkwardness from others judging you, but be grateful that they aren't harassing you because you aborted your baby. After roughly 9 months this will all be in the past, time is essential for healing, mentally and physically. You will be a changed in many ways after your pregnancy, but nothing too detrimental. Overall you made a great choice that some don't usually make, be proud of that.
First of all, you are not alone, countless teenagers get put in the position that you are in. I am a high school senior who hasn't gotten myself in trouble like you because of my higher level of maturity and common sense. Lets face it, your pregnant but want to birth the child instead of having an abortion. Giving it up for adoption is a smart choice compared to abortion. Feminists will be fine with this decision, so your making more than yourself happy.
Hopefully you have learned a valuable lesson, one concerning preparation and logic. This experimentation and curiosity with little knowledge led to the pregnancy. Simple preparation could have prevented this, birth control and condoms for example; the use of these would have stop the pregnancy for sure, but since your a ill prepared teenager, this wasn't floating around in your mind, sex was. Hormones were the ones making decisions, not you. Sadly you can't go back in time and change this but it is what it is. This is one of the problems in the school system, if you were educated on this topic, there would have been a way less of chance this interaction would have taken place. The frontal lobe isn't developed yet, so you will make bad decisions in your teenage years. A combination of preparation, knowledge, and logic could have avoided this pregnancy completely.
Lets think about the birth of your child, you will be undergoing a lot of pain and suffering, and awkwardness from others judging you, but be grateful that they aren't harassing you because you aborted your baby. After roughly 9 months this will all be in the past, time is essential for healing, mentally and physically. You will be a changed in many ways after your pregnancy, but nothing too detrimental. Overall you made a great choice that some don't usually make, be proud of that.
Best of luck,
Austin Hunt
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